SK Telecom Plans Gigawatt-Scale AI Cloud With NVIDIA DSX Platform
The project positions SK Telecom as a dedicated AI Cloud operator using NVIDIA's full-stack reference architecture, marking a shift from general-purpose cloud to GPU-specialized infrastructure for South Korea's industrial AI deployment.
Key Facts
- SK Telecom announced plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in South Korea using the NVIDIA DSX platform.
- The first AI factory is scheduled to start operations in 2027.
- The AI Cloud is designed to generate tokens at the lowest cost while maximizing energy efficiency.
- The infrastructure will power training, inference, and agentic workloads for sovereign AI, physical AI, and enterprise AI services.
- SK Telecom and NVIDIA plan to expand their collaboration to include joint research on next-generation AI factory architectures.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
SK Telecom announced plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in South Korea using the NVIDIA DSX platform, with the first AI factory expected to begin operations in 2027. The infrastructure will support sovereign AI, physical AI, and agentic AI services for businesses and industries across South Korea, with future expansion planned across broader Asia.
SK Telecom will build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in South Korea using the NVIDIA DSX platform, with the first AI factory scheduled to start operations in 2027. The AI Cloud is designed to generate tokens at the lowest cost while maximizing energy efficiency, powering training, inference, and agentic workloads for sovereign AI, physical AI, and enterprise AI services. SK Telecom and NVIDIA also plan to expand their collaboration to include joint research on next-generation AI factory architectures. The announcement was made in Seoul on June 8, 2026.
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